vVhcn the Lord breathes His wrath
nbove the bosom of the waters,
When the rollers arc a-poundin' on
the shore,
When the mariner's a-thinkin' of hi;
Wife and son and daughters,
And the little home he'll, maybe, sec
no more;
Whf'ii the bars are white and yeasty and
the shoals are all a-frothin',
When the wild no'theastcr's cuttin |
like a knife.
Through the seethin' roar and screech
he's patrol in' on the beach—
The Gov'ment's hired man fer savin'
life.
—Joe Lincoln.
Today Uncle Sam's hired men for
saving life endangered by storms on
the coast patrol the beaches from
Quoddy Head 011 the North Atlantic to
Cape Disappointment on the North Pa
cific, and are also to be found on the
shores of the Gulf of Mexico and the
Great Lakes, swept by storms as fierce
as any that ever raged on the Atlantic.
Upwards of two thousand men strain
their eyes and ears out to sea every
' minute of the day and night; and near
ly ever hour that parses these winter
■ days, somewhere a!or.'» the storm-Va
\ ten coasts the members of saving crews
' are risking their own lives to save ship
wrecked fellow beings, or putting forth
every human effort possible to warn
them that go down to the deep in ships
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away from destruction on hidden reef
and sunken bar.
Since the day when Uncle Sam began
to employ coast guards, his heroes of
the surf have saved upwards of a quar
ter of million lives. Under the present
system of life saving, dating from 1871,
they have attended fifteen thousand dis
asters, and out of the 105,000 lives in
volved they have been able to save all
except one in every hundred. As sec
ondary work, of the $225,000,000 worth
of property imperilled, they have saved
an amount valued at $175,000,000. No
other life saving service of the world
can point to a record anywhere near
comparable to this in epic grandeur. A
moment spent in reflection on these sta
tistics will reveal the transcendental
heroism back of them. On one hand,
the combined elements, in their fiercest
mood, roaring destruction; on the other,
a handful of men in oils and sou'wes-
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ters—a crew of six or seven men; and
in the average instance, the little band
of fighters overwhelmingly victorious.
Where is the much vaunted heroism of
battle when compared with the unseen
heroism that takes place in the black
night on some lonely strip of beach?
For while one is the excited heroism of 1
destruction, the other is llie calm iiero
ism of salvation.
The Government spends annually j
about $1,750,000 for the maintenance of
the service. This is less than one-fourth
of the property value saved from the
sea in the same period, to say nothing
of the lives succored. Each succeeding
year finds the sum set aside by the Gov
ernment for life saving somewhat aug
i mented; the first appropriation called
for $5,000. This was made in iS.;7, and
with it the keepers of light houses along
1 the Atlantic coast were furnished, with
means to render assistance in case of
ship wrecks. The life saving service
proper was not really instituted until the
following year, when an appropriation
of SIO,OOO was made for the establish
ment of eight life saving stations on
the New Jersey coast between Sandy
Hook and Little Egg Harbor.
And right here let the man who was
most instrumental in securing this ap
propriation—the man who is, therefore,
the founder of the life saving service—
tell how he came to conceive the Idea
of the service. It is a story little known'
yet it forms an interesting chapter in
the history of federal life saving. Thus
it is told by Dr. William A. Newell,
who, though well along in the
until recently was actively practicing
medicine in Allentown, N. J.:
"My identification with the life sav
ing system ot the United States was the
result of a marine disaster I happened
to view during the summer of 1839,
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